Kateřina Chládková

Education

• 2014 – Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, PhD
• 2009 – Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, MA in General linguistics
• 2008 – Palacky University in Olomouc, Faculty of Arts, BA in English and Dutch philology

Employment

• since 07/2018 researcher – Institute of Phonetics, Centre for the Study of Mankind and Society, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
• since 07/2018 researcher – Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• 03/2016 – 05/2018 post-doc – Institute of Psychology, Universität Leipzig (Germany)
• since 12/2017 guest researcher – MEG group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
• since 11/2014 guest researcher – Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• 11/2013 – 11/2014 post-doc – Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• 09/2009 – 09/2013 PhD candidate – Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Funding

• 2018 – 2020: Acquiring a quantity language: infants' input and perceptual processing of vowel length (PI, from Charles University)
• 2018 – 2020: The effect of talker accent on speech sound acquisition (PI, from Czech Science Foundation GACR)
• 2016 – 2018: Piecing auditory cues together: how we learn to integrate cues in speech perception (post-doctoral individual fellowship Rubicon, from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, NWO)
  
• 2014: Endeavour Research Fellowship from the Australian government, for a 6-month research period - not realized due to family commitments
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Journal articles

•     Chládková, K. (2019). Jazyk nemluvňat - výzkum osvojování hlásek mateřského jazyka. Studies in Applied Linguistics 10 (1), 112–117.
• Paillereau, N. & Chládková, K. (2019). Spectral and temporal characteristics of Czech vowels in spontaneous speech. Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica 2/2019, Phonetica Pragensia. 
• Podlipský, V.J., Chládková, K., & Šimáčková, Š. (2019). Spectrum as a perceptual cue to vowel length in Czech, a quantity language. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, EL352.  
• Tuninetti, A., Chládková, K., Peter, V., Schiller, N.O., & Escudero, P. (2017). When speaker identity is unavoidable: Neural processing of speaker identity cues in natural speech. Brain and Language,174: 42-49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2017.07.001
• Mulak, K., Bonn, C.D., Chládková, K., Aslin, R.N., & Escudero, P. (2017). Indexical and linguistic processing by 12-month olds: Discrimination of speaker, accent and vowel differences. PLoS One. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176762
•  Chládková, K., Podlipský, V.J., & Chionidou, A. (2017). Perceptual adaptation of vowels generalizes across the phonology and doesn’t require local context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 414–427. doi: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xhp0000333
• Kriengwata na, B., Terry, J., Chládková, K., & Escudero, P. (2016). Speaker and accent variation are handled differently: Evidence in native and non-native listeners. PLoS One. 11(6): e0156870. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156870
• Chládková, K., Hamann, S., Williams, D., & Hellmuth, S. (2016). F2 slope as a perceptual cue for the front-back contrast in Standard Southern British English. Language and Speech, 1–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830916650991
• Chládková, K., Escudero, P., & Lipski, S. (2015). When “AA” is long but “A” is not short: speakers who distinguish short and long vowels in production do not necessarily encode a short-long contrast in their phonological lexicon. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:438. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00438
• Chládková, K., Escudero, P., & Lipski, S. (2013). Pre-attentive sensitivity to vowel duration reveals native phonology and predicts learning of second-language sounds. Brain and Language, 126: 243-252. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.05.020
• Boersma, P., & Chládková, K. (2013). Detecting categorical perception in continuous discrimination data. Speech Communication, 55: 33-39. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2012.05.003
• Šimáčková, Š., Podlipský, V.J., & Chládková, K. (2012). Czech spoken in Bohemia and Moravia. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 42: 225-232. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100312000102
• Chládková, K., & Escudero, P. (2012). Comparing vowel perception and production in Spanish and Portuguese: European versus Latin American dialects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131: EL119-EL125. https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3674991
• Chládková, K., & Podlipský, V.J. (2011). Native dialect matters: Perceptual assimilation of Dutch vowels by Czech listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130: EL186-EL192. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3629135
• Chládková, K., Escudero, P., & Boersma, P. (2011). Context-specific acoustic differences between Peruvian and Iberian Spanish vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130: 416-428. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3592242
• Escudero, P., & Chládková, K. (2010). Spanish listeners’ perception of American and Southern British English vowels: Different initial stages for L2 development. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128: EL254-EL260. https://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3488794
  

Peer-reviewed conference papers

• Chládková, K., Boersma, P. Benders, T. (2015). The perceptual basis of the feature vowel height. Proceedings of ICPhS XVIII 2015, Glasgow, article 711.
• Dadwani, R., Peter, V., Chládková, K., Geambașu, A., Escudero, P. (2015). Adult listeners’ processing of indexical versus linguistic differences in a pre-attentive discrimination paradigm. Proceedings of ICPhS XVIII 2015, Glasgow, article 829.
• Podlipský, V.J, Šimáčková, Š., & Chládková, K. (2013). Imitation interacts with one’s second-language phonology but it does not operate cross-linguistically. Proceedings of Interspeech 2013, Lyon, France.
• Chládková, K., & Hamann, S. (2011). High vowels in Standard British English: /u/-fronting does not result in merger. Proceedings of ICPhS XVII 2011, Hong Kong, pp 476-479.
• ter Schure, S., Chládková, K., & van Leussen, J.-W. (2011). Comparing identification of artificial and natural vowels. Proceedings of ICPhS XVII 2011, Hong Kong, pp 1770-1773.
• Boersma, P., & Chládková, K. (2011). Asymmetries between speech perception and production reveal phonological structure. Proceedings of ICPhS XVII 2011, Hong Kong, pp 328-331.
• Boersma, P., & Chládková, K. (2010). Detecting categorical perception in continuous discrimination data. Proceedings of Interspeech 2010. Chiba, Japan.
• Chládková, K., Boersma, P., & Podlipský, V.J. (2009). On-line formant shifting as a function of F0. Proceedings of Interspeech 2009. Brighton, UK.

Invited talks

• 2019: Born with their mother tongue? Language and speech acquisition in the fetus and the newborn, Winter school on Cognitive psychology, Malá Skála
• 2017: Osvojování si hlásek a porozumění řeči: za vším hledej distribuce [Speech sound acqusition and speech comprehension: distributional learning and adaptation], Centrum pro studium člověka a společnosti, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova
• 2013: Tracing phonological vowel length across languages through pre-attentive auditory responses to vowel duration differences: an ERP study, Language and Cognition Group, Universiteit Leiden
• 2011: Investigating the perceptual basis of phonological features, Phonology Seminar, University of California Los Angeles
• 2011: Perception of speech sound structure, Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci